corpse candle

“Hirnant, told me that a drunken sailor at Borth said he went up to a corpse candle and attempted to light his pipe at it, but he was whisked away, and when he came to himself he discovered that he was far off the road in the bog.”

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

“(as long as you do it our way) to enrich a predatory "aristocracy" which plunders and rapes the planet since true democracy is actually anathema to the craven, crony capitalists using the foul light of the macabre corpse candle to enable them in their damnable, gluttonous feed.”

ignus fatuus (The Corpse Candle)

“There is a tradition that St. David, by prayer, obtained the corpse candle as a sign to the living of the reality of another world, and that originally it was confined to his diocese.”

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

“Aben looked at the window and he beheld a corpse candle moving outward through the way of the gate.”

My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People

“One said that he had heard Lion, the big watch-dog, howl long and loud before daylight; another that he had seen a corpse candle as he went homewards the previous evening; a third that she had seen her mistress all in white at her bedside, looking beautiful; a fourth that she had heard a raven croak; in short, if sighs and wonders could kill poor Mrs”

Gladys, the Reaper

“So if I had time I would have ridden after that corpse candle and gotten, if I could, a sight of the bearer had he been fiend or spook, but I knew that I had none to lose.”

The Heart's Highway

““Once a traveller passing through the gate called out to me: ‘Look! yonder is a corpse candle coming through the fields beside the highway.’”

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery